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Jewish Internationalism and Our Ancestors in the Worker's Circle Archives

Lecture
Online
December 16, 2026 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
This event will be recorded. All registrants will receive an email with the recording following the live broadcast.
Free

For more than a century, the Worker's Circle (formerly known as the Workmen’s Circle) and its peer organizations built a vibrant Jewish life grounded in Yiddish culture, mutual aid, and solidarity with working people globally, a tradition some historians call Jewish internationalism. Join the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center for the 2026 Genevieve Geller Wyner Research Fellowship Annual Lecture, where Professor Jeremy Menchik will trace that tradition from immigrant socialism in the early 1900s, to postwar support for Jewish refugees in Europe and for Israel’s labor federation, the Histadrut, to the questions Jews are asking about belonging today. Recovering this history deepens our understanding of the Jewish past and offers a richer vocabulary for Jewish life today, one that many of our ancestors would have recognized.